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ISBN: | 1607060922 (ISBN13: 9781607060925) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | I Kill Giants #1-7 |
Characters: | Barbara Thorson |
Setting: | United States of America Long Island, New York(United States) |
Literary Awards: | Lucca Comics & Games for Premio Gran Guinigi Miglior sceneggiatore (2011) |
Joe Kelly
Paperback | Pages: 184 pages Rating: 4.15 | 14543 Users | 1514 Reviews

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Title | : | I Kill Giants (I Kill Giants #1-7) |
Author | : | Joe Kelly |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 184 pages |
Published | : | September 1st 2009 by Image Comics |
Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Fantasy. Fiction. Young Adult. Graphic Novels Comics |
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This really grew on me. It had to. I started the book frustrated with Barbara, with her disconnect from the real world and total immersion in a fantasy world she's created, with her near inability to interact with the people around her. That's a bold thing that Kelly did, to start the reader off with an entirely outside perspective of Barbara, and only slowly reveal exactly what is going on inside her heart and mind, and what events in her life have caused her to react in this way. (view spoiler)[Her mother is dying of cancer, and Barbara refuses to accept that. Her giant killing fantasy is the way she's tried to construct an actual, material thing she can do to save her. (hide spoiler)] Once I understood her, and even earlier, when I was just beginning to see that there was something to understand, I became entirely absorbed in her story. In the end, this turned out to be a surprisingly moving and heart-felt story, and I'm very, very glad that I read it.Rating Of Books I Kill Giants (I Kill Giants #1-7)
Ratings: 4.15 From 14543 Users | 1514 ReviewsCommentary Of Books I Kill Giants (I Kill Giants #1-7)
Released as a seven-issue, self-contained comic book series, about a teenage girl in the modern day who claims to kill giants. Difficult to expand much on that without spoilers. This book will upset you.Nothing about this is well-done on a technical level, but I still found it effective. The writing is... okay, but there's very little payoff until the end. The art is not great and sometimes make it hard to tell what's going on.The creators have pre- and post-issue comic book conversationsIm not crying youre crying shut up.
The artwork in this comic is super super amazing! Even If the story wasn't so interesting and full of oomph I would've kept on flipping through, it's that amazing. Cool story, amazing read and satisfying ending. Not many YA comics are this satisfying. Awesome book.

I got the same feeling with this book that I did with "A Monster Calls", it was good, but not great.It is the story of a girl named Barbara who thinks she fights giants, the giants being a metaphor for something else of course. Her big sister is taking care of her and her brother, but Barbara does not have the best relationship with them as of late. Something has happened that has distanced them. It is a very well drawn piece of work, all in black and white. It might have been much better with
Whew. I put reading this book off because I knew it was going to wreck me. Reading it a second time, and in one go, was way more gut wrenching. That whole last chapter had me in straight-up tears. I knew the damn ending and I still cried. This book sets you up to have fun with some quirks but with a heavy, heavy cloud over head. How we get to the end is the most important part, and watching Barbara lose control, chapter after chapter, is the roughest part of the story. You know something bad
It's like A Monster Calls in graphic novel but the main character is mean this time.
This really grew on me. It had to. I started the book frustrated with Barbara, with her disconnect from the real world and total immersion in a fantasy world she's created, with her near inability to interact with the people around her. That's a bold thing that Kelly did, to start the reader off with an entirely outside perspective of Barbara, and only slowly reveal exactly what is going on inside her heart and mind, and what events in her life have caused her to react in this way. (view
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